Temnora pylades Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 188

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4F5-FF62-62F6-FF24FCC09BD7

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Plazi

scientific name

Temnora pylades Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
status

 

Temnora pylades Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Hawk moth, Sphinx moth or Hornworm.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’ in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the species include one Rubiaceae species ( Anthospermum aethiopicum L.) and one Lamiaceae species ( Leucas milanjiana Ģrke) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Temnora

Family

Name

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